News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05
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Malignant diphtheria is prevalent at
! Bellows Falls and the board of health
have adopted preventive measures.
The quarantine against Vermont
cattle has been abolished. The cpl
demic in Bennington county is rapid
ly diminishing.
The compilation of the railroad
laws of Vermont, printed for the
| board of railroad commissioners, has
just been published.
A Mrs. Flynn blew out the gas on
retiring at the Van Ness House in
Burlington, Friday night and her life
was saved with difficulty.
The old muskets of the Estey Guard
of Brattleboro have just been sent to
Saxton's River for the use of the ca
diets in the Vermont Academy.
Lena, the wife of Cortez Marco of
Weston ATTEMPTED suicide by leaping
into the grist mill pond, but was res
cued. Her husband was too shiftless
to support her.
Burglars entered the grocery store
of Laurier & Ouinet at st. Adams
recently and had broken off the knob
of the safe door when they were
frightened away.
Mrs. Dolly White, who died at
South Newbury ten days ago, was
103 years and nine mouths old. She
was remarkably healthy and vigorous
up to short time before her death.
The Supreme Court has decided
that a conspiracy among workmen to
prevent others from working, or from
being hired, is crime at common law
and punishable under the statute of
Vermont.
People at Castleton since the new
interstate law went into operation,
have been favored with 33 per cent.
reduction in freight on flour from AL
baDy. Heretofore they have paid 20
cents more on barrel than Rutland.
Wilder Lewis, well-to-do and
much respected citizen of Wells, aged
80 years, was killed instantly Friday
morning by a piece Of board flying
from a circular saw and striking him
in the stomach. He leaves a wife |
and one daughter.
A four-year-old child of Patrick
NOLAN of Brandon, set her clothing
on fire Tuesday, while playing with
matches, and was terribly burned
about the neck and body. She suf-
fered great pain, but lived nearly "a
hours after the accident.
The Trotter House at Bradford,
owned by A. L. Fabian was burned
Friday morning. The guests and en-
ployees. some forty in all, escaped,
but lost their personal property.
Libby Brothers livery stable and a
tenement were burned. The loss is |
$4,000.
Temperance camp-meeting will be
held at Spring Grove, New Haven,
June to IL, and the week following
the association will have a Sunday
school assembly, the latter gathering
10 be conducted by Rev. and Mrs.
James S. Ostrander, of Brooklyn.
The regular animal camp-meeting will
begin August % and continue ten
lays.
Brakeman Hall, on the White
Mountain division of the Boston and
Lowell railroad, was struck by car
IN the railroad yard at St. Johnsbury
On Saturday night, and one set of
trucks passed over him, cutting off
his right arm and mutilating his left
hand. A brother brakeman saw this
accident, and jumping from the car,
pulled Hall out before the other
wheels struck him.
The celebration of the 10Th ami
versary of the Grand Army Post at
Burlington on Wednesday of last
week was most imposing affair and
was participated in by many promi-
nent men of the State, Including Gov.
Ormsbee and his staff. Gen. w. W.
Henry, mayor of Burlington, made
the principal addresses. The object
OF the meeting was 10 swell Inc 1unQ
for the Gen. Stannard monument.
Dewitt Leonard, one of the most
successful job printers in this State,
died recently at his home in Brattle-
boro, of brain fever. Mr.. Leonard
was well known to the craft through
out the State, being a member of the
association, and generally
met with them at their annual gather
ngs, and by whom he was highly re-
spected. He was practical printer
and devoted to his calling-a man of
good sense and sound judgment, and
1ne whose death is a loss to the art
He was 81 years old,
md leaves a wife and four children.